OK. You guys in the freight industry hit the back button. You don’t want to read this blog.

Now that those guys are gone… the cost of shipping the 144 inch straight edge clamp is $252.00! Making to total bill around $345.00. Can’t do that so, I made some calls.

I found this piece of aluminum straight stock for $62.00 locally. I picked it up this morning. It’s 3” wide, 1/4” thick and 12 feet long. I took a picture of it with my 4 foot ruler to give you some sense of scale.

Here it is:

I sharpened up the new/old planes, Stanley 7 and 8 this morning. Made some nice curls! I also had to tell my wife about the No. 6 I bought Friday. This is getting out of hand (planes)! Maybe this will be last one for a while. Let me nurse those blisters in a few days and we will be able to judge my hand plane collection.

Thanks for taking a look.

-- The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when someone is watching.

2 comments so far

Sawdustonmyshoulder- way to go on that straight edge, that was a hefty price for your original one. You made me curious about ebay so I took a look. There are some really bad planes there and of couse some better ones. Right now my shelf is full but what I did notice was the amount of Porter-Cable porta planes for sale. I guess if someone wants something bad enough then the bid is high. I use a Porter-Cable no 126 Porta Plane for hanging doors, but there was a time I used my trusty old no.5 Stanley. Some of them were in pretty bad shape or really old. Later, bob

I’ve used an aluminum extrusion that is used to make door frames for commercial doors. they are big and straight. The longest one that I have is 8’ long. I got it for salvage aluminum, prices about 5 years ago.

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